Mourinho to go in June

José Mourinho will not continue on the Real Madrid bench next season even if the club wins the Champions League. Relations between the Portuguese manager and Real Madrid President, Florentino Pérez, have broken down completely, and are now practically inexistent. That's the way things are. Mourinho will negotiate his departure from the club in June 2013.

In private, Florentino said last weekend that "Mourinho is cutting his own throat", and has often been heard criticising both Mou the manager as well as his difficult character - and the manager is well aware of this.

Both club and manager will try to reach the end of the season as amicably as they can, without fighting, and they will negotiate Mourinho's departure in June, above all bearing in mind that there are presidential elections, but the decision has already been taken. What happened at the Bernabeu at 9.20 p.m. on the night of the derby match was one more incident that confirms Florentino's thoughts, that you cannot have a manager continually putting a strain on the club.

Mourinho has insisted repeatedly that the club should get someone to back him up in his complaints, to have some clout in the Federación, in the league and at UEFA. But at the club they know that no one wants to stick their neck out by being an aggressive spokesman, and Mourinho sees that they won’t back him up; and that they only want results from him.

The turning point has been losing out on the league after only three months, and playing much worse than last year. Florentino is aware that the dressing room is not with the manager, and that his rows and his defiance now have little effect. They back him up in the outside world, but indoors at the club they ignore him, something which is driving Mourinho to despair.